We just steamrolled past everybody's idea of how you market and of how long it takes to do these things. We had people [drawing up] contracts in days that usually take months, because we were tired of people sitting around.

I think that should be the name of Joss' new media Roger Cormanesque studio: We're Tired of People Sitting Around, Inc.

I'm going to quote Joss now to all my friends and family that point out the grey bits in MY beard when I don't shave for a couple of days. You're right Joss, it IS terribly sexy.

Good interview. And good to hear they're in the black and have the problem of working out how to split the profit. It may not be a vast sum of money but it's in the black nine months after principal photography, and how many Hollywood movies can say that?

Knowledge@Wharton: Can you recall the first piece of popular entertainment -- a TV show, a movie, a comic book -- that really made an impression on you as a child?

Whedon: Umm ... all of them?

Let's go with "Help, Help, The Globolinks," a horror opera that I saw when I was five. It terrified me. They drove a van on stage -- which was awesome. And then the van broke down, the Globolinks came, and the only thing that would keep them away was music. A young girl had a violin and she would play the violin at them and they would go away.

I never realized that Joss wasn't Joss' name. I feel like I've been adoring wrong fandom all these months.

Of course, it sounds funny to think of "Joseph Hill" as his serf name and "Joss" as his chosen name. ;) Or something like that. "Joss" does command the power that this man has over "Joseph Hill". Maybe one day he'll just be "Joss", like "Cher" or "Beyonce". But then we'd have to rename the black... "Jossesque"?

Yeah, he always skirts around his feelings about Fox after Firefly was cancelled very nicely.

I just had a random thought. Any chance Joss would do a continuation for Firefly and Serenity and release it on the internet? Because that would be SO COOL! (and the actors would probably be up for it, too!)

I remember seeing websites dedicated to getting "season 2" as an online-only thing up and going, but that was also before Dr. horrible made everything web-related seem so reasonable and viable, its made so many people who didn't believe in the web completely believe in the web!

I don't think he's being all that diplomatic. He was angry at the network, not the production company (where his deal was). The network wasn't the same network months later, so why hold a grudge against a name now when none of the people you were angry at even work there?

"So, five years from now, we will all have antennae. I got nothing."
LOL
I would only accept the antennae if Joss is doing the broadcasting (of course I'm STILL recording on a VCR). This was a very good interview, but I'm disappointed that they aren't seriously thinking about taking Dr. Horrible to Broadway!

Knowledge@Wharton recently spoke with the 45-year-old Whedon about the lessons learned from "Dr. Horrible" and what he believes needs to happen for the Internet to serve as a platform that can sustain original creative content. An edited version of that conversation follows.

Okay, now I want to read the UNEDITED version. Unless edited just means they just took out the random 'umms' etc.

Even if I weren't crazy, though, the absence of a byline would still bug me. It's always bothered me when writers who aren't on the old newswires don't give their name. If I'd been alive when the news networks started that practice, it would have bugged me then. Anyway, the Wizard of Oz thing is very old now.